Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Friday September 22nd, 2006

– Online digital music royalty tracking service Royalty Share grabs top honors at the Popkomm Innovation In Music & Entertainment Awards. (press release), The huge European music convention is now underway in Berlin. (Popkomm)

– Hey if the Grateful Dead can do it…The Philadelphia Orchestra has launched a download store offering reasonably priced live performance downloads. (here)

-Buyout News: MTV buys music game producer Harmonix (Guitar Hero) for $175 million. (NY Times) Yahoo! is also reported to be eying Facebook for around $1 billion.

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